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Archive
Welcome to dedicated archive chronicaling all of the analysis and projects posts published on the site to date. You can easily navigate through the archive chronologically by clicking the below years.
Local Place Plans arrive in the Highlands
29 Sep 2023
Highland Council has registered their first Local Place Plan. Stratherrick and Foyers, south of Loch Ness, are the first out of the blocks. It means that the community now has a plan that sets out what it wants to happen on the ground. Rather than a plan done by government...
Read More...Local Place Plans: why bother?
29 Sep 2023
Many local authorities are inviting local communities to prepare Local Place Plans. Planning Democracy kindly asked me to write this blog post for their website, to help community groups decide whether or not to bother - with a few useful tips thrown in along the way. In the run-up to...
Read More...Where are we with Local Place Plans?
31 May 2023
[Image]Local Place Plans have steadily been moving up the planning and community development agenda over the last couple of years. Interest has ramped up in recent weeks on the back of Scottish Government draft guidance on Local Living and 20 Minute Neighbourhoods and then Local Development Planning Guidance, each of...
Read More...What will it take to plan WITH communities as NPF4 suggests?
27 Apr 2023
This is a summary of my 10 minute provocation to stimulate debate at a national conference on delivery of NPF4 - Delivering NPF4: What will it take? - organised by the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence at the University of Glasgow on 24 April 2023. My focus was on...
Read More...Delivering NPF4 through mixed use placemaking
28 Feb 2023
Urban designer Paul Morsley of Iglu Studio, development economist Steven Tolson and land-use planner Nick Wright summarise their work on the public sector’s role in delivering NPF4, commissioned by Scottish Enterprise after draft NPF4 was published in late 2021. [Image] The changing context Achieving zero, improving health and wellbeing, and...
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